On Sunday, May 8th, you might want to check out your local park, as on Tuesday 56 mayors met with the Inauguration Commission to organize community festivals. Vivian Quesada, member of the Commission, explained that “We want the inauguration to be a party for all Ticos, with popular music and fireworks. We hope our […]
The TSE declared the official results on Wednesday and no changes occured in the results of the scrutiny. 21 of the 57 representatives are women, and 4 of the 8 fraction leaders are also female. (Actually the 4 male fraction leaders are the only representatives their party has!)
The lucky winners are:
San José: Francisco A. Pacheco, […]
As a result of the recent elections 10 political parties are eligible to receive a slice of a 13 billion colon pie, which is .19 per cent of the Gross National Product. Legislators were unable to pass initiatives which would have reduced the political debt to .1 per cent of the debt.
PAC candidate Otton Solís […]
On Wednesday, the TSE finalized the manual scrutiny of votes for the legislature and will announce the official results next week. Unofficially, but certainly, PLN has gained 25 seats in the 57 member Assembly.
PAC obtained 17 seats, the Libertarian Movement 6, PUSC 5 and 4 minority parties have 1 representative each (PASE, Frente Amplio, Partido […]
After the official scrutiny of the Heredia province, the preliminary results held up and as expected PLN and PAC gained the 5 seats in the next Assembly. After the manual count, the PLN had 60,910 votes, so they received 3 seats, the legislators will be Fernando Sánchez, Hilda González y José Ángel Ocampo.
PAC received 51,324 […]
In yet another tight race, the PUSC party was unable gain an additional seat in Cartago. The PUSC candidate led the race for the remaining seat, but the party did not reach the minimum number of votes (subquotient) needed. PUSC received 14,193 votes in the province, but needed to get 14,270 minimum. Since PAC did […]
After 2 Supreme Court decisions, over 1 year of campaigning, millions of dollars later and the closest presidential race in decades, Oscar Arias has been officially declared President elect.
With a slim 18,169 vote margin over Ottón Solís, of PAC, the 65 year old Arias will return to Zapote after 20 years. Arias was president from […]
As of today, the TSE can announce the next President of Costa Rica. But we are still not sure when that will be. The time permitted for appeal the manual scrutiny of the final polling stations has expired. The TSE has 695 appeals in total to resolve, and currently 210 of those are pending. Once […]
In a weekend conference the PAC party re-emphasized its ethics code for the 18 legislators that will take congressional seats on May 1st. Although the new reps were familiar with the code, Marta Zamora, the current fraction leader, said that after training courses it was necessary to “replant certain points”.
The reinforced points dealt with voting […]
On Wednesday afternoon the TSE finished the manual scrutiny and did not declare Oscar Arias the next president of Costa Rica, although he leads by a comfortable 1.12 per cent.
Arias has 664,545 votes (40.9%) and Solís 646,378 (30.8%), so the lead is now 18,167. These are official figures with 100% of the 6,163 polling stations […]
